Within the narrow corridor, Elena gritted her teeth tightly as she frantically rushed toward the rooftop as quickly as she could.

Never had she felt nine stories of a building to be such a long journey. With every single step, she was going up three or four stairs at once, but there seemed to be no end to them.

She was biting down on her own lower lip so viciously that she was drawing blood, and right at this moment, a rumbling boom rang out, followed by the sound of bricks and stones clattering to the ground. It was clear that there was a massive creature pursuing her and that it had just burst through a wall.

She didn't even dare to take a look behind her.

However, there was no way that she could outrun a Count, and after she had made her way up seven floors, she could already hear her pursuer galloping along right behind her. This was the first time she had ever been placed in such a perilous situation, and she didn't even stop to think why it had taken an Infernal Judge seven whole stories to finally catch her.

All she knew was that the light was right up ahead! As soon as she scaled the final two floors and reached the rooftop, she would be able to release her flare, upon which everyone would be alerted to the betrayal of these abhorrent werewolves!

She was going to be the one to put an end to all of them.

She had heard that Cardinal Fernando had almost...